It has destroyed him--deservedly." "Destroyed him ?" His lordship laughed a little.

"Be none so sure of that.

He has grown rich, I hear.

He has translated, so it is said, his Spanish spoils into French gold, which is being treasured up for him in France.

His future father-in-law, M.d'Ogeron, has seen to that." "His future father-in-law ?" said she, and stared at him round-eyed, with parted lips.